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Steven Yates: Navigating Technofeudalism as a Cloud Serf

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Government, History, Politics, News

4.2570 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Steven Yates explains how we’ve seen a gradual structural move back to a fundamentally feudal system (technofeudalism/technocracy) in which Big Tech overlords, owners of cloud capital, have replaced landed gentry. And if we till the soil of its platforms for a fee, we’re cloud serfs or cloud proles. He also discusses expatriating to Latin America.

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About Steven Yates

Steven Yates is a (recovering) ex-academic with a PhD in Philosophy. He taught for more than 15 years total at several colleges and universities in the Southeastern U.S. He has authored three books, more than 20 articles, numerous book reviews, and review essays in academic journals and anthologies. Refused tenure and unable to obtain full-time academic employment (and with an increasing number of very fundamental philosophical essays refused publication in journals), he turned to alternative platforms and heretical notions, including about academia itself.

In 2012, he moved to Chile. He married a Chilean national in 2014. Among his discoveries in South America: many of the problems in the U.S. are problems everywhere, because human nature is the same everywhere.

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Steven Yates’s book Four Cardinal Errors: Reasons for the Decline of the American Republic (2011) can be ordered here.

His philosophical work What Should Philosophy Do? A Theory (2021) can be obtained here or here.

His cosmic horror novel The Shadow Over Sarnath (2023) (written for the sheer fun of it) can be gotten here.

*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

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Welcome to another edition of geopolitics and Empire. As always, support the podcast. Best way you can do that is by becoming a paid subscriber on the substag. You can donate through the website, geopoliticsnepire.com. Purchase console, if you want to chat with me about anything, expatriation, conspiracy, the new world order geopolitics or the meaning of life. And do check out all of my affiliates. Our exclusive sponsor this month is Mikhail Thorup's expat money online summit.

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Joining us for the first time is Stephen Yates.

0:58.0

He's an independent scholar, an author with a doctorate in philosophy.

1:01.6

He's the author of a number of books,

1:03.4

including civil wrongs for cardinal errors,

1:06.9

reasons for the decline of the American Republic.

1:09.7

The e-book philosophy is not dead.

1:11.9

He's an expatriated American living in Chile.

1:15.1

You can find him on Patreon as well as his substack,

1:18.3

Stephen Yates.

1:19.3

That's substack.com.

1:20.9

Welcome to the podcast, Stephen.

1:23.5

Thank you for having me.

1:24.9

I really do appreciate it.

1:27.3

Yeah, you know, I came across your work recently. I think it was through Patrick Woods

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